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    Excerpts from the government’s briefs (the case is Beers v. Barr):

    A few months later, he applied to a Pennsylvania state court for restoration of his right to possess firearms in accordance with state law. See D. Ct. Doc. 24-1, at 17 (Mar. 25, 2017). The Pennsylvania court concluded that petitioner could “possess a firearm without risk of harm to himself or other persons” and accordingly granted the application. D. Ct. Doc. 29, Ex. A, at 1 (June 15, 2017). At that time, however, the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives (ATF) had not yet determined that Pennsylvania’s program satisfied the federal criteria for relief programs. Pet. App. 5a n.9. The court’s action accordingly neither relieved petitioner of his federal-law disability under Section 922(g)(4) nor affected petitioner’s federal suit.

    Fast-forward a few years:

    On July 1, 2019, while the petition for rehearing was pending, ATF approved Pennsylvania’s certification that its state relief-fromdisabilities program satisfied the minimum criteria established by federal law. See Pet. 23. As a result of that decision, the previous state-court order restoring petitioner’s rights to possess a firearm operated to lift the federal disability imposed by Section 922(g)(4). See 34 U.S.C. 40915(b). Petitioner states that he has since secured a firearm license and has obtained a firearm.

    For the other side, here’s the cert petition filed by attorneys for Beers.

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      The justices on the side of The Constitution and the rights of individual Americans are waiting for Ginsburg or Bryer to ‘vacate’ and POTUS Trump to nominate another justice on the side of The Constitution and the rights of individual Americans, with a ‘positive’ Senate still in office and session.

      The typical Democrat justices are waiting for after the already-rigged election when whoever will be in the big chair at 1600 can nominate somebody like El Guapo, Sunstein, etc. and also ‘take care of’ one or two of the current justices on the side of The Constitution and the rights of individual Americans…..

      …..because Chief Justice Tax/Fee-Fee/Tax is already compromised and any major rights opinion vote he casts will go to ‘them’.

      Tool up. It’s coming.

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        It looks like the next conference (where we might actually get Second Amendment cases accepted) is this Thursday May 21.

        There are about 10 Second Amendment cases potentially before the court. There are only six Thursdays left to vote on cert petitions before the court adjourns for the summer. The clock is starting to run out.